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"The Earth Destroyer": A despondent Professor Phineas Proteus decides there's nothing for it, and it's his duty to destroy the world. When Captain Marvel stops his first attempt, Proteus explains himself: he recently discovered a massive cloud of poisonous gases is soon to cover the Earth. He's

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Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel Adventures #102 is an issue of the series Captain Marvel Adventures (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1949.

Synopsis for "The Earth Destroyer"

A despondent Professor Phineas Proteus decides there's nothing for it, and it's his duty to destroy the world. When Captain Marvel stops his first attempt, Proteus explains himself: he recently discovered a massive cloud of poisonous gases is soon to cover the Earth. He's actually trying to destroy the human race to spare them a painful, lingering caused by the cloud. He tries to burn the world to a cinder with a giant match he's devised, but this doesn't do anything except burn up all the dirt and dust, leaving everything and everyone completely pristine. Captain Marvel uses another giant match to burn up the gas cloud, leaving no trace.

Appearing in "The Earth Destroyer"

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  • Prof. Proteus (First appearance)

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  • Ultra Fire matches

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Synopsis for "Captain Marvel Meets the Man Who Didn't Exist!"

The tiny, bitter Tim Tinker is reviled by everyone in his small town. He builds a robot he can control from inside to reinvent himself as Bull Barton, a huge, powerful man who can be the one to push around everyone he dislikes. At the same time, Billy visits looking into claims that this is a model town that's clean, happy and has no crime. This means Captain Marvel gets involved when he finds Barton beating up anyone he meets, but the villain bullies his way into a town council meeting and forces them to sign into law an order banning Captain Marvel from the city limits. He gets around this by returning as Billy, who taunts the bully into chasing him past the city limits where Marvel can legally fight him! A blow from the World's Mightiest Mortal shatters the robot shell, exposing Tim Tinker, who's the one exiled from town instead of Marvel.

Appearing in "Captain Marvel Meets the Man Who Didn't Exist!"

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  • Brentwood

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Synopsis for "The Magic Mix-Up"

A professor buys a used black magic book and begins mumbling some of the spells as he walks home, mocking the idea that any of them can actually conjure magic. Billy is nearby and changes to Captain Marvel to fight off the demons, living statues and other dangers the professor unwittingly summons. Confronting him, Cap fails to get him to believe anything happened, and the professor reads off a spell to prove the book doesn't contain any real magic powers. When nothing happens Cap starts to wonder if something else was the cause of the monsters he fought.

The last spell actually didcreate another danger: it summoned the evil wizard who wrote the book back from Hell, and he steals it from the professor in his sleep. Cap shows up, attempting to sneak into the professor's house so he can examine the book for himself, only to spot the wizard flying away on the back of a dragon. The wizard summons hordes of monsters to stop Cap, but they don't even slow down the World's Mightiest Mortal. Realizing he's faced with a foe he can't defeat, the wizard uses his last resort, a spell that sends him back to Hell. This leaves all the other spells in the book powerless so Cap gives it back to the professor, who remains unconvinced anything strange happened at all.

Appearing in "The Magic Mix-Up"

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  • Prof. Tweedle

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  • Afreet Uglah

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Synopsis for "The Adventure Within An Adventure"

A distress call comes over the radio from due west, and Tawny asks if he can come with Captain Marvel to rescue the imperiled girl who called in. On the way, Tawny daydreams of helping Marvel rescue a beautiful girl from gangsters, evil cowboys, and an avalanche. He thinks he's still daydreaming when they battle space aliens to rescue the girl, and faints when she tells him that really happened!

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  • Alien invaders

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